Visit a Parisian museum in Singapore
Taking over Fort Canning Centre, the Singapore Pinacothèque de Paris is the hottest new art museum in town. And just as well that the Lion City is its first overseas outpost: the museum is known for a curatorial style that seeks to forge connections between artists and their work that transcend time, cultures, origins and genres – a little like Singapore herself.
While its permanent collection includes about 50 masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock, the Pinacothèque inaugural feature show is The Mystery of Cleopatra. More than 200 archaelogical artefacts, theatre props and so on are on display – there’s even a funeral mask that was used to cover the face of mummies.